Pwn2Own: Down go all the browsers

ZDNet ^ | 3/8/13 | Steven J Vaughn-Nichols

[freeandfreezing]

A good example of how adding features that appeal to large numbers of end users, and flashy visual designs, are more important to software vendors than security. The market for browsers demands new features, not security, so that is what we get.

It is certainly possible to write browsers that are nearly impossible to attack, but there is little market for them.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Where was the image actually stored?

[ShadowAce]

Firefox 19.0.2 was released less than 24 hours after this announcement to fix this flaw.

Pretty fast.

[BenLurkin]

I have no idea. Found it using Bing.

[for-q-clinton]

No way...Impossible for OSX to go down. At least that’s what we’ve been told by the macbots and apple zealots.

Of course they were saying that even after OSX was the first to lose 3 years in a row!

Oh well, who ever takes security advice from a macbot is an idiot anyway.

[for-q-clinton]

Odd this year they didn’t test safari?

Also it’s amazing that they are saying adobe is the most secure platform this year! Wow they have really turned it around.